Lawyers in the Dock: Learning from Attorney Disciplinary Procedings

Author:   Richard L Abel
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780195374230


Pages:   584
Publication Date:   04 December 2008
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Author:   Richard L Abel
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.954kg
ISBN:  

9780195374230


ISBN 10:   0195374231
Pages:   584
Publication Date:   04 December 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Replaced By:   9780199772872
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface 1. Trust and Betrayal Part One: Neglect 2. Juggling Too Many Balls 3. Practicing Immigration Law in Filene's Basement 4. The Overachiever Part Two: Fees 5. Bleak House in America 6. The Perils of Perfectionism Part Three: Excessive Zeal 7. The Purloined Papers 8. Restoring Trust Notes References Index

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<br> Richard Abel has produced an interesting and provocative book. Anyone interested in the nature of lawyers' work, and the problems lawyers can create for themselves in carrying out that work, will be interested in what Abel shows in his case studies. <br>-Law and Politics Book Review, June 2009<p><br> Drawing on detailed records of six disciplinary proceedings and on an extensive body of theoretical literature, Abel considers the structural causes of systemic moral failure in the legal profession. He argues that typical measures to deal with ethical lapses by lawyers are ineffective and concludes that the monopoly power enjoyed by attorneys in the United States must be drastically contracted. <br><br>-Law & Social Inquiry, Fall 2009<p><br>


"""Richard Abel has produced an interesting and provocative book. Anyone interested in the nature of lawyers' work, and the problems lawyers can create for themselves in carrying out that work, will be interested in what Abel shows in his case studies."" -Law and Politics Book Review, June 2009 ""Drawing on detailed records of six disciplinary proceedings and on an extensive body of theoretical literature, Abel considers the structural causes of systemic moral failure in the legal profession. He argues that typical measures to deal with ethical lapses by lawyers are ineffective and concludes that the monopoly power enjoyed by attorneys in the United States must be drastically contracted."" -Law & Social Inquiry, Fall 2009"


<br> Richard Abel has produced an interesting and provocative book. Anyone interested in the nature of lawyers' work, and the problems lawyers can create for themselves in carrying out that work, will be interested in what Abel shows in his case studies. <br>-Law and Politics Book Review, June 2009<br>


Author Information

Richard L. Abel is a Professor of Law at the UCLA Law School, where he helps operate the UCLA Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. Before he taught at UCLA, he was a professor at Yale Law School, from 1969-1974, during which he was a lawyer with New Haven Legal Assistance Association. Professor Abel graduated from Columbia Law School in 1965, after which he practiced law in the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law in Jackson, Mississippi. He was also a Marshall Scholar and Foreign Area Fellow in London and Nairobi, attaining his Ph.D in African customary law.

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